Theatre
Lights, camera, chaos
Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom
Waiting for normal
Why lockdown is the perfect time to read Samuel Beckett
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Waking up in Bardland
Fifty years of the RSC: Reflections in a time of corona
Does drama need the theatre to survive?
I am anticipating watching theatre from home with some trepidation
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?
Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip
Blessed plot – or maybe not
“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
